Anthony Bloch, Liliana Borcea and Thomas Lam of the Department of Mathematics in LSA were recently named 2015 Simons Foundation Fellows in Mathematics.
Simons Award recipients receive funding for up to a semester-long leave from classroom teaching and other obligations in order to focus on their research. They are selected by experts in the field of mathematics for their potential for research accomplishment, as judged by their work over the previous five years, in addition to their anticipated plans for the leave period.
Bloch is the Alexander Ziwet Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and professor of mathematics in LSA. His research focuses on Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics, symplectic geometry, integrable systems, stability, nonholonomic systems, the relationship between continuous and discrete flows, and nonlinear control and optimal control. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and has been a Guggenheim Fellow.
Borcea is the Peter Field Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and professor of mathematics in LSA. Her field of research centers on inverse scattering in random media, electro-magnetic inverse problems, effective properties of composite materials, transport in high contrast, and heterogeneous media. She’s currently an elected member of the SIAM council, and recently co-organized a theoretical and applied computational inverse problems workshop in Vienna, Austria, in 2014.
Lam is a professor of mathematics in LSA whose research is in algebraic combinatorics. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, and recently co-authored a paper entitled “Rigged Configurations and Cylindric Loop Schur Functions.” Lam has previously been published in such journals as Fields Institutes Monograph and Compositio Mathematica.
